Advocates race to provide detainees with free attorneys as a possible shutdown raises fears of deportations and transfers.

The number of detainees at the Florida immigration detention facility known as ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is dropping.

A detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" has become too expensive to maintain and may soon close.

Every spring Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe observes its corn dance season on lands the tribe holds as sacred within the fragile Everglades. But this year’s festivities are different, because of the ...

Is Alligator Alcatraz winding down, closing? Florida U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost visited the immigrant detention center May 26.

Florida plans to shut down the Everglades migrant detention site known as Alligator Alcatraz as soon as early June, according to a news report. Officials at the site told vendors this week the ...

A Florida congresswoman described conditions at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention center as inhumane. The facility, located in the Everglades, is under investigation by two U.S. senators ...

Buses carrying detained immigrants depart from Alligator Alcatraz at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. Photo by Matias J. Ocner ...